Lectern — Reader Mode, AI Summaries & Highlights

Clean reader mode, speed reading, highlights, read later list and article downloads. The reading companion for serious readers.

Lectern is a distraction-free reader and reader mode for the web. Turn any article, blog post, or news page into a clean, beautifully typeset reading view — no ads, no popups, no clutter. Get instant AI summaries, highlight and annotate as you read, speed-read with one-word focus mode, listen with text-to-speech, and export everything to Markdown, HTML, or PDF. Lectern is built for people who actually read. Why you'll love Lectern: 📖 Distraction-free reader mode — Strip away ads, popups, sidebars, and clutter. Open any article in a calm, focused reading view with elegant typography and comfortable margins. ✨ Instant AI summaries — Turn a long read into a clear, concise summary in one click — generated privately on your own device. 🖍️ Highlight & annotate — Save passages as you read, add your own notes, and keep every highlight organised in one searchable hub. 📤 Export your reading — Download articles and highlights as Markdown, HTML, or PDF. Perfect for Obsidian, Notion, research, or your own archive. ⚡ Speed reading — Flash one word at a time to push comfortably past your usual reading pace and stay focused. 🔊 Listen to anything — Have any article read aloud with built-in text-to-speech. 🎨 Read your way — Multiple reading themes for day and night, adjustable fonts and sizing, auto-scroll, and automatic save-your-place so you never lose your spot. Private by design. Lectern runs entirely in your browser. Your reading, your highlights, and your summaries stay on your device — nothing is sent to a server. Perfect for: students, researchers, writers, and anyone who reads long articles, essays, papers, or blog posts and wants a calmer, more focused way to do it. Lectern is a product from niallcodes — an independent software project based in the United Kingdom.